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Paypal, Twitter, and Other Major Sites Hit by DDoS

posted by takyon on Friday October 21 2016, @08:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the breaking-the-net dept.

e_armadillo writes:

I just tried to access my Paypal account, and apparently it is down.

Companies including Twitter, Netflix, PayPal and eBay appeared to have their websites broken. And other services like PlayStation Network appeared to be hit by a major outage:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/netflix-twitter-internet-down-not-working-broken-paypal-ebay-facebook-instagram-a7374506.html

Update: Internet service appears to stablize after waves of cyber attacks

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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday October 21 2016, @09:50PM

    by Arik (4543) on Friday October 21 2016, @09:50PM (#417440) Journal
    Ok, but did anyone I actually care about get hit?

    Anyone who has a web-page?
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @11:24PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @11:24PM (#417459)

    Tried to "Track a transfer" on the Western Union site and it was flaky, only part of the page would load, some items greyed out. Possibly one part of the page calling another file somewhere to load the captcha (or some other "test for a human" frob)? Tried several times over 15 minutes around 3pm eastern time, always the same. Just tried now and it's back to normal.

    Now, who was it that wanted me to buy a car that requires an internet connection? (looking ahead a few years)

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @04:03AM (#417517)

    I had real problems with my VPN - privateinternetaccess.com. Once a VPN tunnel was up, it stayed up. But I switch endpoints 5-10 per day and if the DNS flaked out during the tunnel setup it would error out. Once I figured out what was going on I just kept the same tunnel up. But it took me a while to debug it.